Nick Kyrgios shared his perspective on Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray’s retirements. The Aussie said he envisions a different farewell for himself and doesn’t want to exit the sport in the same way as these two legends.
Murray concluded his remarkable career at the Paris Olympics this year. Meanwhile, his longtime rival Nadal is set to follow suit with plans to step away after the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga, Spain, next month.
On The Louis Theroux Podcast, Kyrgios said that he doesn’t believe Murray went out as gracefully as he could have, especially considering his status as one of the sport’s greats, just behind the ‘Big 3.’
“I look at how Andy Murray’s doing it (retirement) now, and how Rafael [Nadal] is going out, I don’t want to be like that either, I don’t want to be kind of crawling to the finish line in a sense,” he said (at 1:03:48).
The former Wimbledon finalist continued:
“What Andy Murray’s achieved in this sport is second to basically no one, like, unless you’re Novak, Federer, or Nadal, like, the next person is Andy Murray.”
